Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 14

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I Watch for Children PAGE Ourteen journal RENO NEVADA TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 22 1953 ESTABLISHED 1S70 WEATHER YESTERDAY: High 81 low 43: precipitation trace TODAY: Generally fair few afternoon showers in vicinity continued warm days and cool nights fire hazard extreme two lore hxmy Hotels at a Given Licenses Casa Blanca Sunrise State Asks Death or Santo Pals Projects to Cost $6000000 By ROBERT BXNNYIIO United Press Staff Correspondent CARSON CITY Nev Sept 21 (UPJ The Slate Tax Commission today granted gambling licenses for two new pro jected Las Vegas Strip resort hotels the 53500000 Casa Blanca and the 52500000 Sunrise Hotel The license for the Casa Blanca was granted to eight applicants They included: David and Myer Gensbtirg of Beverly Hills Calif retired Chi cago pin machine manufac turers now engaged in the home building business 15 per cent apiece Bailey New York realtor and builder 10 per cent Arthur anti Gummo Marx of Hollywood members of the Marx brothers of theatrical fame 15 and 10 per cent respectively Jack Goldman Miami Beach la restaurant operator 10 per cent Harry Robbin of Los Angeles re tired Chicago concessionaire and Southern California bingo parlor operator 15 per cent Murray Saul Miami Beach real tor 10 per cent Nate Schlaifer a Las Vegas pit boss will manage casino operations at the Casa Blanca He will receive a salary yet to be determined plus a percentage of the net profits ofthe casino One Licensee for Sunrise The Sunrise Hotel was licensed solely in the name of rank ish man Los Angeles hotel operator and realtor Las Vegas Attorney Louis Weiner representing ish man told the seven commissioners ishman had not jet decided whether he would lease the gam blind out or would hire someone to manage the casino for him ishman Weiner said has had no experience whatever in gam bling operations This led Commis sioner Paul McDermott of Las Vegas to declare he felt that the tax commission should not be placed in a position of granting the gambling license without knowing exactly who" was going to direct casino operations at the hotel Commissioner Norman Brown of Smith Valley disagreed pointing out that ishman was putting up all the money for lhe proposed hotel Brown declared he capable of conducting the gambling and he gets cleaned what business is that of Vote Is Unanimous After considerable discussion the commission voted unanimously to grant ishman the gambling license However members made it clear they would keep close watch upon ishman's actions in getting someone to operate gam bling at the hotel and would act promptly in the event it appeared a operation was not assured ishman told a commission in vesigator sometime ago that Bal lard Barron formerly associated in operation of the Hotel Last ron tier in Las Vegas might handle gambling at the Sunrise Weiner said also that Nola Hahn Las Vegas gambling figure would prob ably be given some kind of job in the Sunrise casino The commission denied unani mously the application of Jerry and Howard Brooks and Joe Cohen for a gambling license for the Patio in Las Vegas formerly the Red Roos ter and Hi Ho Club Nat Green New York clothing manufacturer was granted a gam bling license for a three per cent interest in the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas Green will purchase the in terest for 590000 from Jake reed man principal operator of the Sands if Airport Road Desert Club Gets License LOS ANGELES Sept 21 Jurors in the Mabie Monahan murd er trial retired tonight after delib erating the fate of two men and an attractive woman accused of the crime for two and a half hours The jury in the sensational murd jer tiial retired early this afternoon I to deliberate the fate of Mrs Bar I bara Graham 30 Jack Santo 49 and Emmett Perkins 44 accused of killing Mrs Monahan 63 last March 9 for 5100000 they mistak ingly thought was hidden in her home The prosecution demanded the death penalty for the trio Chief Prosecutor Adolph Alexander in concluding arguments called them a of Superior Judge Charles ricke permitted the jury to retire after 30 minutes of instruction on the points of law involved In locking up the jury at 5 pm Judge ricke said they would con vene again at 9:30 am Testimony Attacked Jack Hardy Mrs Graham's attorney wound up the case for the defense by Insisting the jurors not be influenced by the testimony cf the star prosecution witness John True True testified he was with the three accused on murder night but wanted ro part of the murder He said he tried to stop Mrs Graham as she pistol whipped the 62 year old widow He said he later went to a closet in the Mona han home where Santo had tossed the trussed up Mrs Monahan to loosen the cloth around Mrs Mona neck A IZ I KJ fYC temporarily as head of the Reno USO is AAll INxJ kx i Sam Chollar who has been with fthe armed services department for 38 years He will serve as director here until a permarent appointment is made for the position Mrs Golda Rie Brown resigned recently as director of the Reno USCLa to take a position with the Oakland school board Km 1 home away ROM home KMaan I 0 Hr mWMMA A MMwWg 1 I 'Z I I IriK I OSO Sesretory taed for tae Sam Chollar Comes rom Nev? York Taking over temporarily at the Reno USO is Sam Chollar a vet eran of 38 years in the armed ser vices department of the YMCA Mrs Golda Rie Brown recently re signed as director of the Red ea ther agency to assume a position with the Oakland school board Mr Chollar was sent directly to Reno from the ort Totten post in York and he will remain as director of the Reno USO until someone is found who has the experience re quired to fill the position The new director of the USO stated that he found that the Reno USO had a surprisingly varied and efficient program set up and oper ating effectively for the widely separated posts from which it draws its clientele He plans a tour to Bickel Meadows allon and Herlong as soon as time permits Mr Chollar said that County air Big Success Repeat Sure Public acceptance of the Wa shoe count' fair virtually assures repeat performance for next year see how we could very well avoid another fair next Clarence Thornton secre tary manager of the Washoe County air Association said hap pily reaction was so favor able and public sentiment so strong for continuing the fair that almost have to put another one on next he said Mr Thornton noted that en thusiastic fair goers were buy ing admission'' tickets at 10:30 pm Saturday a certain indica tion of the popularity ust how many admission tickets were sold has not yet been calculated and may not be for another day or so Mr Thorn ton said Hardy said True was a He told the jury it had a choice of believing True admitted accomplice in the or Miss Connie Perez a crippled girl who testified Mrs Graham was home on the murder night But Alexander attacked the de fense on the alibi issue He said she tried to establish an alibi through another county jail inmate Donna Prow Barbara Graham where she was on the night of March 9 She was at the Mabie Monahan home brutally pistol whipping Mrs Monahan to he said Alexander defended the prosecu tion tactics of using hidden record ing equipment and undercover po lice officers to gain evidence against Mrs Graham have to fight fire with he said Shea itesgrihes Ohster Ambush That Was oiled Witness Says Another Merchant Escaped ate SACRAMENTO Sept 21 The two top suspects in the Gard Young murder case tried to waylay another Chester merchant the same day a witness told state agents to day Witness Larry Shea told officers that Jack Santo and Emmett Per kins tried to catch rank Locatell owner of the Red and White mar ket when he came out of a West wood bank on October 10 1952 Young a Chester grocer and three small children were robbed of $7 100 and beaten to death after they left the same bank the same day Shea said he identified Locatell for Santo but that Locatell drove 80 85 miles an hour and Santo and Perkins were unable to catch him Earlier Shea said he might have told Santo about Young's banking habits He denies direct implication in the crime George Brereton state criminal identification chief said all of testimony was known prior because of a conversation recorded some time ago between Shea and another party Tne oral testimony confirms that conversation Brere ton said Shea will be given a lie detector test later Brereton said the men with whom he had come in contact since assuming his new du ties were all happy at the services being rendered by the local USO setup He added that with the com ing of colder weather he felt that the Reno USO might be able to send camp shows to the various camps of the armed services within the range covered by the Reno op eration Explaining that his stay in Reno depends on the appointment of a permanent director to the local USO Mr Chollar stated that there would be no change in the exten sive program planned for the fall 'months by Mrs Brown BLUE RIBBON OR VERDI Verdi Homemakers Club won a blue ribbon for its exhibit at the Washoe County air instead of a red ribbon as previously an nounced The interesting Verdi exhibit featured frozen foods as well as home canning and needle work all Orippfed Children To Be Held Here Sept 28 Details of fall diagnostic clinic for crippled children spon sored by the state department of health and scheduled for Monday Sept 28 were announced yester day by Dr A DaCosta city and county health officer The clinic will be open to all boys and girls under 21 who are psysi cally handicapped and examina tions will be offered without charge and without discrimination Heading the staff will be Dr John Becker Reno orthopedic surgeon and Dr John Palmer Reno pediatrician With them will be Dr Daniel Hurley acting state health officer and the director of crippled services Dr Gladys Jewett state clinical psychologist Miss Marion Barf knecht physiotherapist of the Ne vada Society for Crippled Children Harold Lloyd appliance fitter and Miss Elizabeth Horton record ing secretary Parents are urged to make ap pointments well in advance of the clinic which will be held at Washoe County Health Center 40 Sierra St by phoning 2 8631 Car Blocking Alley Ordered Towed Away ound parked in Douglas Alley so as to partially block the thor oughfare a 1946 Buick sedan was towed by police yesterday morning Renoites Top NPOA Shoot By UNITED PRESS Tony Gallerani and Gerome Cornell were granted a gambling license Monday for the Desert Club formerly the Normandy Club on Airport Road by the state tax commission William Gallagher head of the gambling tax division said the li cense met with no objections from the Washoe county office The pair operate gambling at pres ent at Log Cabin also on Airport Road Other licenses granted by the commission included: William Borden interest Embassy Club Las Vegas pending fingerprint clearance 7 William Elio Albert Relio and Roy Pagni' Club Jubilee Reno pending clearance of fingerprint (To belocated in Pleasant Valley) Richard Northcott and Harry Lauritson Topaz Lodge games Topaz Lake ls COMING I TO NEVADA Reno will be the scene of the Nevada Peace Officers Association convention next year The 1953 convention was held last weekend at Las Vegas and in cluded election of officers and the annual marksmanship match Two Reno men walked off with individual top honors in the shoot and the Reno police department team took second place in the four man team marksmanship matches Hubert Boyd deputy JI marshal won first place for overall high score closely followed by Cliff Webb Washoe County sheriff's deputy 7 Nosing out the Reno pistol team LOST White Toy ox Terrier Black and brown over one eye Young boy's I pet Answers to the name of Dinkie I $50 REWARD Call 3 7200 for first place was the Mineral County sheriff's group George A (Al) Jensen County sheriff was elected NPOA president for the coming year Other officers are A Sebbas Pershing County sheriff vice pres ident James Wood' Washoe County superintendent of investigation re elected secretary Clark Davidson Clark County sher deputy sergeant at arms Directors are Joe Shepp Her bert Sarnowski Carl Olson rank Cole and one to be appointed by Sheriff Jensen Announcement of Reno as the place for the 1954 convention was made Sunday following installa tions and tallying of final results in the shoot NOTICE AWARD THE YANCEY ALL ALUMINUM COMBINATION DOOR Offered free at the first annua! Washoe County air was won Mrs Lillian Koskela of 229 13th St Sparks Nevada Installation will be made this week Another Nevada home will be made more comfortable by Most Beau tiful Aluminum Door YANCEY COMPANY 445 Eureka Ave PHONE 2 8651 ive State arm Meeting Attacks Benson Program Soil Conservation Group Protests To Ike Delegates to a five state meeting of members of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts voted unanimously to draft a reso lution of protest to the so called Benson farm plan to be sent to President Eisenhower Approximately 150 delegates from California Nevada Idaho Oregon and Washington decided to ask the President why soil con servation leaders have never been called in by Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Taft Benson to discuss his farm plan Waters Davis of League City Tex told the delegates that the 2547 soil conservation districts which embrace 87 per cent of the farmland are in serious danger of destruction under the so called plan developed by Earl Coke assistant secre tary of agriculture under Benson Cluim armers Ignored This plan Davis declared would place the entire emphasis upon fair haired twins research and and would turn the farm program over to educators rather than practical farmers Davis president of the national association said badly needed tech nical assistance now made avail able in conservation districts through the national soil conserva tion service is with He pointed out that Coke is on leave as head of the University of California Agricultural Extension Service and charged his thinking epitomized present Agriculture De partment views He conceded such agencies per formed good jobs in their fields but declared make an engi neer out of a Davis said the nation's soil con servation districts were totally ig nored by the book in which they even men tioned He asserted that the Department of Agriculture had become a tightly run secretive that top officials of the soil con servation service and the forest service were on "schedule This meant he said that they can be fired at will and thus are afraid to offer criticism Davis added it had come to the point where he himself has stopped visiting friends in the soil conser vation in Washington for fear they will be censored by superiors Bureaucracy eared William Southworth also of League City program advisor of the national association declared KI A AK A at the convention of the west I JJiuHiXLiX ern district of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts was Graham Hollister of Genoa a past president of the state soil conservation association shown here addressing the group Last night in the Nevada Room of the Mapes Marshall Dana consultant to the president of the National Bank of Portland Ore was the speaker at the banquet The convention will conclude today with a business meeting in the Sky room 1 i Mt tsW xvST VS 'st? 'JelOr' W' i A i '4 wlg A ri 1 I 'MBj Ji? 1 1 VA A'lle JK 'Ml i Vjt XA' jC xj IJi'MMk St Ag 7 '1 'A' 7 'L' 1 10 'Persons In laming Crash BAKER Calif Sept 21 Ten persons nine of them members of a happy bridal party on their way to a Nevada wedding were killed in a fiery car truck collision last night The dead included a 14 year old prospective bride her fiance and members of her family including three children The tenth victim was the driver of the truck Police said the crash occurred near here as the party drove to ward Las Vegas Nev for the wed ding of 14 year old Joyce Lindsey and Thomas Graham 24 An 11th person a young sailor was jn critical condition from burns The California highway patrol called the accident of the worst to our Officers said flames from the wreckage blocked the highway for 45 min utes The other dead were identified as: Claude Lindsey and his wife Jean Mr and Mrs A Lindsey Linda Lindsey 4 Virginia Lindsey 2 Arnold Lee Lindsey 11 and James Jones of Las Vegas the truck driver Howard Heiffus 20 a Sherman Oaks Calif sailor attached to the USS Impervious was taken to the naval hospital at Corona Calif with second and third degree burns over his entire body A truck driver said the Lindsey auto tried to pass his vehicle and crashed head on into the truck it isse Road Zoning Argued Wte Bef erred County Commissioners Conduct Hearing or Objectors Testimony from critics and sup porters of a plan to zone Mount Rose Road from Reno Hot Springs to the Chalet was taken under ad visement by the Washoe county commissioners yesterday The zoning was strongly recom mended by Raymond Smith direc tor of the regional planning com mission The commission has urged zoning that would exclude com mercial enterprises from many sec tions of the highway and otherwise provide for agricultural usage Redfield Opposes Move Lined up in opposition are such property owners as LaVere Red field and George Callahan The opponents claim such zoning would allow Reno at one end and Slide Mountain at the other to corner the ski vacationer's dollar At hearing Mr Cal lahan talked at length about the zoning proposals The original zoning plan has been altered 10 include commercial uses for the Callahan property facing the high way Also introduced at the hearing was a letter from Attorney John Sinai asking that any decision to establish a commercial area cover both sides of the highway Galena Caretaker Resign The commissioners took action yesterday to accept the resignation of Galena Creek Caretaker rank Leonard effective November 1 The resignation was accepted and the commis sioners commended Mr Leonard for his and faithful Several applications have already been made for the post being va cated by Mr Leonard The com missioners indicated all would be studied before a successor is named Holgate Trip Approved Tn other business the commis sioners gave their permission A Holgate Washoe county civiL defense director to attend a na tion wide meeting of civil defense directors in Washington They voted him an allowance of 5325 to help meet his expenses at the meeting The commissioners also directed Jhe county highway department to move equipment from the quarters at the Lakeside school to the Sufcliff school The action was requested by John ant deputy superintendent of schools who notified the county board there were not enough pupils to re establish the Lakeside school this year San Jose Police PAY NOTHING 127 NORTH VIRGINIA ST RENO 938 SPARKS BATTERIES OR ALL HEARING TRY A ZENITH HEARING AID OR 10 DAYS WITHOUT RISKING A PENNY! 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If not fully satisfied simply return the instrument within 10 days for a complete courteous refund No risk no obligation There's a Zenith Hearing Aid for every need from "borderline" to severe impairment each model is packed with famous features! we fear is that Benson is fixing to set up little departments of agriculture in every county in the nation It looks like the darn dest bureaucracy we ever saw come down the Southworth was critical of the proposal whereby enlarged exten sion services would become the channel for bringing technical and economic information needed to de velop sound range plans for farms and where we gel Southworth declared farmers throughout the country have organized soil conservation districts all over the country They run them themselves and they get paid a nickel for it Benson in the says in black and white goings to ignore them and set up little bureaucracies in every Committee sessions were sched uled for this morning (Tuesday) followed by another open session at which wording of the protest mes sage to the President was to be approved 16 Routine Offenders Appear in City Court Sixteen muniicipal court cases were given hearings yesterday for routine offenses Thirteen were charged with drunkenness five with vagrancy or disorderly con duct and one with assault Seven drunks forfeited 510 bail each by failing to appear One dis orderly forfeited $50 One vagrant and four drunks were given until 4 pm to leave town or serve jail terms while balance of the offend ers paid small fines or began short sentences behind bars Locate Reno Car San Jose Calif authorities noti fied Reno police Saturday that they had recovered a brand new Hudson sedan stolen here a few days ago Held pending further action is a man identified as Rodney Mark ley California officers said They added that Markley has admitted stealing the 53700 car The vehicle was loaned to a pros pective customer for a ten minute by the Wesley Gritton automobile agency here Both the car and the man disappeared San Jose authorities said the new car appeared to be in pretty good running condition although it had been driven over a curb and needed realignment of the front wheels to visit several days with his brother Ben jn Tokyo Een Chik ami a sergeant who is stationed in Tokyo wrote the Reno family that he enjoyed a fine reunion with his brother who spent two and a half years in a Communist prison camp After visiting Ben Buster Chik ami will stop off in Hawaii to snend some time with his sister in Honolulu Then will come the long delayed reunion with his fam ily in Reno Praised by ellow POW Meanwhile a fellow POW came here yesterday in hopes of visit ing Chikami with whom he was held by the Reds in prison camps and on the notorious march to the north Marine Pfc Billie Lessman of Sacramento was released by the Reds in the August exchange and was flown directly to the states He is currently receiving treat ment at the Mare Island Hospital Visiting the Journal office for help to a lot of the fellows who were in a bad way on the march north We sure thought a lot of Capt Hamilton Shawc Gardnerville another prisoner of Although the last main shiploadjinformation on Chikami Lessman of freed POWs from Korea docks had a lot of praise for the former in San rancisco today be Rcno boxing star was a great 4 1 4 4U 11 about a month before MSgt Akari (Buster) Chikami returns to Reno Relatives here learned yesterday that Buster passed up an imme diate return to the states in order I war released recently is sched tiled to arrive in San rancisco Wednesday aboard the transport Gen Howze We Deliver $100 Orders Call Today PET OOD MARKET 745 SOUTH VIRGINIA PHONE 2 4444 Your dog can be a show winner! 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